Inspiring performance and capacity

For the creators, the gamers and those that demand the best, we delivered the next generation of hard drives to enlarge your PC playground. The latest WD Black desktop hard drives offer enhanced features that maximize system performance, allowing you to spend more time doing what you love most and less time waiting. WD Black is designed to intensify your PC experience with generous capacity and incredible performance, pushing the boundaries of personalization.

For the Gamer…Smarter than the average drive

Performance and workstation PCs equipped with high-end components often omit vibrations and acoustics that can reduce the precision and performance of your hard drive. Even the best chassis on the market cannot always compensate against this. The new generation of WD Black hard drives feature Vibration Control Technology (VCT) which allows the disks inside the drive to adapt to any mounting problems or vibration conditions that are inside your case, resulting in increased data accuracy, performance and reliability over time. Put simply, this means you can game harder, faster and longer.

For the Enthusiast…Action meets stable traction

In addition to Vibration Control Technology (VCT), WD Black is also equipped with StableTrac Technology, which secures the motor shaft inside the drive at both ends to help reduce additional system-induced vibrations. StableTrac confidently stabilizes the platters inside, resulting in more accurate tracking in a particular sector during read and write operations and delivers increased performance. (2 TB models and above).

For the Creative Pro…High resolution for a high definition world

Underlying its athletic stance of performance and capacity, WD Black features a new High Resolution Controller (HRC) with an improved architectural design, resulting in increased data precision across the hard drive. This translates to superior responsiveness evolving your high definition world to the next level.

Protecting your moments

The worst thing that can happen during a rendering process is losing data due to power fluctuation or power failure. The new generation of WD Black hard drives is equipped with Corruption Protection Technology (CPT), which helps to protect and limit the potential problem of data loss during power failure or power loss to the hard drive. Overall, Corruption Protection Technology can save you time and money on your project.

Upgrading your drive is easy

WD Acronis True Image, available as a free download on the WD Support site, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive.

Dynamic Cache

WD's dynamic caching algorithm improves performance in real time by optimizing cache allocation between reads and writes. For example, if there's an overwhelming percentage of read traffic as opposed to write traffic, the drive automatically allocates more cache for read data, which reduces congestion and improves overall drive performance.

NoTouch Ramp Load technology

The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Easy upgrade

Acronis True Image, available as a download on the WD Support website, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive.

The WD advantage

WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. This testing ensures our products consistently meet the highest quality and reliability standards of the WD brand. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles as well as helpful software and utilities. Our customer support lines have longer operational hours to ensure you get the help you need when you need it. Our toll-free customer support lines are here to help or you can access our WD Support site for additional details.

Recommended use

WD Black hard drives are tested and recommended for use in PCs, high-performance workstations, all-in-one PCs, gaming PCs, game consoles, home media PCs and notebook computers.*

*Desktop drives are not recommended for use in RAID environments, please consider using WD Red Hard Drives for home and small office, 1 to 5 bay NAS systems and WD datacenter hard drives for 6 bay and greater NAS systems.

Product Specifications

Interface

SATA 6 Gb/s

Performance Specifications

Rotational Speed

7,200 RPM (nominal)

Buffer Size

64 MB

Load/unload Cycles

300,000 minimum

Transfer Rates

Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk)

150 Mb/s (Max)

Physical Specifications

Formatted Capacity

1,000,204 MB

Capacity

1 TB

Form Factor

3.5 Inch

User Sectors Per Drive

1,953,525,169

Physical Dimensions

English

Height

1.028 Inches

Depth

5.787 Inches

Width

4.00 Inches

Weight

1.52 Pounds

Metric

Height

26.1 mm

Depth

147 mm

Width

101.6 mm

Weight

0.69 kg

Environmental Specifications

Shock

Operating Shock (Read)

30G, 2 ms

Non-operating Shock

300G, 2 ms

Acoustics

Idle Mode

29 dBA (average)

Seek Mode 0

30 dBA (average)

Seek Mode 3

30 dBA (average)

Temperature (English)

Operating

32° F to 140° F

Non-operating

-40° F to 158° F

Temperature (Metric)

Operating

5° C to 55° C

Non-operating

-40° C to 70° C

Electrical Specifications

Current Requirements

Power Dissipation

Read/Write

6.80 Watts

Idle

6.10 Watts

Standby

0.80 Watts

Sleep

0.80 Watts

Compatibility

Operating System

Compatibility

Windows/Mac

As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, megabit per second (Mb/s) = one million bits per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.

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